Spatiotemporal impulse response and cortical magnification

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1119-1128

  Manahilov, Velitchko ^a   Atanassova, Svetla ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Cortical magnification; Impulse response; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA FOVEA; STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; WAVEFORM;

HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME FACTORS; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0032005520     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00249-6     Document Type: Article

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